✦ History

Explore October 1, 1928 – December 31, 1932

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Events

Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Salt March 1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
1930 FIFA World Cup 1930-07-13 - 1930-07-30
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
1931 China floods 1931-06 - 1931-08
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident 1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Statute of Westminster 1931 1931-12-11
Holodomor 1932 - 1933
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23

People

Joseph Stalin age 49
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover age 54
President - United States
Calvin Coolidge age 56
President - United States
Hirohito age 27
Emperor - Japan
Haile Selassie age 36
Emperor - Ethiopia
George V age 63
King - United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg age 81
Reich President - Germany
Reza Shah age 50
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 46
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 58
King - Italy
Albert I of Belgium age 53
King - Belgium
Paul Doumer age 71
President - France
Gaston Doumergue age 65
President - France
Alexander I of Yugoslavia age 39
King - Yugoslavia
Plutarco Elías Calles age 51
President - Mexico
Fuad I of Egypt age 60
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Zewditu age 52
Empress - Ethiopia
Washington Luís age 58
President - Brazil
Emilio Portes Gil age 38
President - Mexico
Abelardo L. Rodríguez age 39
President - Mexico
Pascual Ortiz Rubio age 51
President - Mexico
Gerardo Machado age 57
President - Cuba
Jorge Ubico age 49
President - Guatemala
Lázaro Chacón González age 55
President - Guatemala
José María Reyna Andrade age 67
President - Guatemala
Manuel María Orellana Contreras age 57
President - Guatemala
Baudilio Palma age 48
President - Guatemala
Albert Lebrun age 57
President - France
Benito Mussolini age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Chiang Kai-shek age 40
Premier - Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 38
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Józef Piłsudski age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Raymond Poincaré age 68
Prime Minister - France
Stanley Baldwin age 61
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Franz von Papen age 48
Chancellor - Germany
Ramsay MacDonald age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 45
Taoiseach - Ireland
Kurt von Schleicher age 46
Chancellor - Germany
Pierre Laval age 45
Prime Minister - France
Alexei Rykov age 47
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) age 52
Chancellor - Germany
Heinrich Brüning age 42
Chancellor - Germany
Wang Jingwei age 45
Premier - Republic of China
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
Kijūrō Shidehara age 56
Acting Prime Minister - Japan
Tanaka Giichi age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Saitō Makoto age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Takahashi Korekiyo age 74
Acting Prime Minister - Japan
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 52
President - International Olympic Committee
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Hamaguchi Osachi age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
W. T. Cosgrave age 48
Taoiseach - Ireland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 62
Prime Minister - South Africa
Anton Korošec age 56
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 52
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Kazimierz Bartel age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Petar Živković age 49
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Walery Sławek age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Sun Fo age 36
Premier - Republic of China
Aleksander Prystor age 54
Prime Minister - Poland
Kazimierz Świtalski age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Adli Yakan age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Tan Yankai age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Haqqi al-Azm age 63
Prime Minister - Syria
William Howard Taft age 71
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles Evans Hughes age 66
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles G. Dawes age 63
Vice President - United States
Charles Curtis age 68
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 27
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 28
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 53
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Neville Chamberlain age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Douglas MacArthur age 48
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Frank B. Kellogg age 71
Secretary of State - United States
Joseph Wirth age 49
Reichsminister - Germany
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 41
Reichsminister - Germany
Henry L. Stimson age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Dwight F. Davis age 49
Secretary of War - United States
Andrew Mellon age 73
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Wilhelm Groener age 60
Reichsminister - Germany
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 69
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 54
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden age 64
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Ogden L. Mills age 44
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Patrick J. Hurley age 45
Secretary of War - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 43
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 56
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John G. Sargent age 68
Attorney General - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 63
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William D. Mitchell age 54
Attorney General - United States
Charles Pelot Summerall age 61
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 60
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 63
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 65
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 33
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
David Lloyd George age 65
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Clement Attlee age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Arthur Henderson age 65
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Harlan F. Stone age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Clark McReynolds age 66
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Lansbury age 69
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 61
President - African National Congress
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 47
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 56
President - Sinn Féin
Brian O'Higgins age 46
President - Sinn Féin
Cordell Hull age 57
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 50
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 46
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 70
Senate - United States
Anthony Eden age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Nance Garner age 59
House of Representatives - United States
Stafford Cripps age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 38
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 10
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Christian Herter age 33
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable age 5
New York State Senate - United States
Adolf Hitler age 39
Führer - Nazi Party
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 47
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 38
President - Indian National Congress
Pius XI age 71
Pope - Vatican City
Hermann Göring age 35
President of the Reichstag - Germany
Ibn Saud age 52
King - Saudi Arabia
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 52
President - Indian National Congress
Alfonso XIII age 42
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 48
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 56
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 70
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 58
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 6
King - Kingdom of Romania
Zog I of Albania age 33
King - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 36
President - Dominican Republic
Prajadhipok age 34
King - Thailand
Mohammed V of Morocco age 19
Sultan - Morocco
Antanas Smetona age 54
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 66
President - Finland
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 78
President - Argentina
Carol II of Romania age 34
King - Kingdom of Romania
Lauri Kristian Relander age 45
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 32
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 29
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 60
President - Poland
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 47
Viceroy - British Raj
Michael Hainisch age 70
President - Austria
Óscar Carmona age 58
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 59
President - Chile
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 58
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 18
Sultan - Oman
Juan Vicente Gómez age 71
President - Venezuela
Jigme Wangchuck age 23
King - Bhutan
Alexandros Zaimis age 72
President - Greece
José Félix Uriburu age 60
President - Argentina
Agustín Pedro Justo age 52
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 45
President - El Salvador
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 60
President - Argentina
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 50
President - Chile
Gustavs Zemgals age 57
President - Latvia
Alberts Kviesis age 46
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 28
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 52
King - Cambodia
Augusto Leguía age 65
President - Peru
Charles D. B. King age 53
President - Liberia
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro age 39
President - Peru
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 74
President - Greece
Edwin Barclay age 46
President - Liberia
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 42
Sultan - Oman